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Newspaper
High Point Enterprise
Location
High Point, North Carolina, United States of America
Date
Mar 16, 1888
Page
1
Poem reflects on the journey from youth to adulthood seeking truth. The speaker warns that deeper inquiry brings grief and unrest as secrets and mortals’ limits are confronted. Even with glimpsed revelations the soul remains unsatisfied.
The article surveys ancient reverence for springs, from Dodona and Egeria to Castalia and Hippocrene, noting how myths, health rites, and poetry tied to perennial waters. It traces Greek, Gaulish, and chivalric beliefs and recounts Aristotle's cooling of subterranean air as a factor in spring formation.
A New York gold beating shop explains the process to convert bullion into thin ingots and pages, using specialized books and hammers. It notes the division of labor by gender, with 20 male gold beaters and 900 gold cutters, and says women dominate the cutting side.
A fragment shows dialogue where a boy named Tommy answers a question about his mother with brief replies and a promise to say thank you if given cake, capturing a domestic scene in terse speech. The tone hints at a child’s simple manners and a household moment.
Col W M Shannon was killed by Col E B C Cash in a duel in 1880 area. Cash noted for charity and wartime service as a Confederate colonel at First Manassas. He lived near Cash's Depot, Chesterfield County, and supported Hampton during 1876 campaigns. The incident helped spark anti dueling laws and public oath against dueling.
A Hampton man recalls 1861 in Henry County near Sandy Ridge as Elaine Marston, aged sixteen, awaits a fiancé Harry Miller who goes to war. News of his death comes, Elaine marries in 1869, and a West Coast businessman later learns of the old romance and visits her doorway. The tale ends with his vow to stay away from Georgia.
The Hong Kong Mail received in San Francisco describes a major Yunnan earthquake on December 15 with deadly casualties. In Ching Chau the quake lasted four days with most buildings destroyed and over five thousand killed. Lo Chau saw land swallowed and a lake formed with more than ten thousand said to have perished.
A reje poem line reflects nature’s groan at a father struggling to dress a baby. The verse portrays paternal challenge as more anguished than a woman tossing a stone or sharpening pencils. The Judge notes the scene with wry humor.
Mrs. Louis Wickey, sixty, died as her home and contents burned. Her daughter had left for the spring. on return she found the building ablaze. In Scotland Neck a boiler explosion at Gardner Hassall's shop injured two men, Purse badly, Scott severely scorched. In Rutherford County a fight erupted during a school examination involving Edley Hunt Sammy Hunt and local magistrate Thomas Mode and others, with serious injuries reported.
Citizens in Cheraw push for a local graded school as part of town development efforts. The report notes related civic projects and ongoing efforts across the region.
A drive to build a barrel factory starts in Conyers while a large steam laundry rises in Brunswick. Dublin votes 82 to 3 to issue 5000 dollars in bonds for new school buildings. A moonshine still was captured and destroyed between Resaca and Tilton near the railroad after more than two years in operation. A pistol accident at Abbeville injures Bee Brown, son of Judge Loam Brown, when the hammer strikes a crosstie and wounds his left foot. In Branonsville an elderly woman, Rena Wall, dies from severe burns after her clothing catches fire during breakfast.
A special from Opelousas Louisiana reports a cyclone traveling through the southern portion of the parish. Dwellings were destroyed and Chapman Guidey Valen tine Lavergins Marcote and Louis Bourgeois injured. The Lavergins child was killed and Chapman Guidey and his son suffered arm injuries. Three brothers running a store lost their houses and goods scattered for miles. The Bourgeois family all injured. About a dozen dwellings and similar number of outbuildings were demolished. path about three hundred yards wide.
The House approved a $120 000 appropriation to enlarge Atlanta public buildings. Senator Platt was urged to report favorably the North Dakota state admission bill, with linked provisions for Washington Territory and North Idaho as a single state, while Idaho's inclusion would require elector consent from the affected area. A minority report was expected. The Senate Agriculture Committee heard a test on pure lard production using dead hog grease. Professor Sharpless demonstrated a compound blending stearine, cotton seed oil, lard, and dead hogs grease, drawing criticism from Senator Cromwell over manufactur ers' claims. The panel adjourned to Saturday.
The bout between Sullivan and Ellison ended in a draw after three hours and thirty nine rounds with Sullivan taking the worse fate as the fight was halted.
Two assailants attacked elderly toll bridge keeper Buff and his wife at Broad River Bridge three miles from Columbia. Buff survived after recovery. Mrs Buff in precarious health. John Felton, a Black resident, was killed. a white man named William Johnson jailed on suspicion. Robbery and arson followed, with plans to cremate victims. Community threatens lynching if proof of guilt is solid.
A Pickens County fatal domestic incident ends with Tom Alexander admitting to killing his wife after a quarrel over firewood. He claimed self defence. Dr. Earle linked Alexander's mental state to bodily affliction.
The Agricultural Bureau's monthly statement updates cotton figures by state with Virginia at 90 percent and South Carolina 98 percent. It notes overall 92 percent and discusses underestimation in local returns, lint yield about 82 percent, and seed values from 13 to 16 cents. It also reports March wheat and corn stock data, corn at 508 million bushels, merchantable share 84.4 percent, and reduced transport into counties.
A masked man named Kimball robbed the Bradford national bank in Pennsylvania. Cashier Tomlinson wrestled him, got shot, and fatally wounded the robber who then killed himself. A butcher, A L Bleich, was wounded, and Tomlinson and another cashier were gravely hurt. Police pursue, theft recovered, city laments.
The text sketches a man once famed for acumen and a breezy frank manner who has changed greatly. He is described as losing vision and ambition and now lives in altered conditions. It notes he is married and hints at past reputation and current state.
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